The economic, political and social-cultural influence of current immigrants is far more beneficial to the nation than our media critics make them out to be. Hispanics are fast becoming the new foundation of our countryâs economic, political and social-cultural power.
umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound. diaeresis, dieresis. diacritic, diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation. Translations.
Naive is borrowed from from which in turn borrowed the umlaut from the German language. The umlaut is used in vowels to indicate that they are pronounced as two vowels combined. For example Ã¤ is pronunced like ae. You then know that naive with the double dots (naÃ¯ve), is not pronounced as nÄve, but rather as nÄ«â¢Äv like the way we know it.